[Gllug] [OT] speaking French in France

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On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, dylan at dylan.me.uk stipulated:
> On Tuesday 07 Sep 2004 19:43 pm, Doug Winter wrote:
> <SNIP>
>> I heard it on Radio 4, it must be true!  Unfortunately I've just
>> checked and you appear to be correct, at least according to the OED
>> and alt.usage.english.
> 
> My advice would be to ignore the vase majority of what you read in that 
> resource - speaking as a linguist, that is.

Which resource? Not Radio 4, obviously (unless you've found a way of
reading it), but are you suggesting ignoring the OED, or a.u.e.?

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